Of the seven shades (Let Me Pop! wasn’t available for purchase when I bought these, but since there wasn’t a noticeable difference between these and when they originally debuted, you can see a swatch here), Vintage Selection was by far the best performer. It was nicely pigmented, incredibly blendable, and applied beautifully–smoothly, evenly, and wore all day long without fading or creasing. This is the kind of consistency and quality that made Paint Pots my go-to base for years (and more to the point, what made them so popular when they originally debuted). It’s creamy with just the right amount of slip to make for quick and easy blending and application, but it still dries down and sets without ever gathering in the creases.

FYI: the ingredient list for the Pro Longwear Paint Pots is the same as for the regular Paint Pots when I compared against the list for Bare Study/Constructivist! It’s off by one ingredient when compared to the Paint Pots from Posh Paradise.

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Yes, yes, yes! So excited this received a good grade since this is the one I missed out on before and was wanting to use for an easy, one step lip color. Thanks for getting the swatches and reviews out so quickly!

The last photo is captioned, Let’s Skate/Vintage Selection but I’m quite sure the photo is of Vintage Selection/Let’s Skate. I own Let’s Skate and it is definitely the pink based color, to the right of the lid.

They were rated as a *group* versus I’m rating them individually here. We also use a (slightly) different rating system now — no packaging, no value and then breakout of specific attributes like pigmentation, longevity, etc.

Please pardon if this has been asked before, but how do these MAC paint pots compare to the new Estee Lauder paint eye shadows? I am trying to decide between this one and Halo. I have blue eyes. Thanks!

This looks like an amazing product- I bought Chilled on Ice in a past collection and it really gave paint pots a bad reputation in my mind. I definitely want to buy this- since it’s not LE I probably will wait a little while

I want this one!! Champagne cream shadows are my favorite! I use them everyday, with every look…lashline to browbone, as primer, or as inner corner/browbone highlight. I have 3 cream champagne shadows right now (Benefit rsvp, Origins 03 and loreal iced latte) but can never have enough!!!

Again, same question Christine: the Cham-Pale paint pots got a B. This time Vintage Selection got an A+. Did the other colors from Cham-Pale pull down the overall grade? Was wondering because this seems to be the same product as the Cham-Pale ones. So, what grade would you give the old VS if you would grade them (Cham-Pale paint pots) individually?

I may pick this one up! I purchased it when it first came out, but that version had glitter and was a complete mess of fallout if I tried to put shadow over it! This new formula/version looks so much better!